Art History 88

This book, written from the perspective of a designer and educator, brings to the attention of media historians, fellow practitioners and students the innovative practices of leading moving image de……続きを見る

Un point de vue incisif sur la vie culturelle au Moyen-Orient. Deniz Agden ne donne plus de nouvelles depuis trois jours. Moh, jeune artiste français installé à Istanbul, est intrigué par cette myst……続きを見る

Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what ancient monuments looked like, they deliberately distorted the representation of them in print. Deciphering t……続きを見る

This book offers the first critical study of the architecture of the Roman triumph, ancient Rome's most important victory ritual. Through case studies ranging from the republican to imperial periods……続きを見る

Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium’s most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. The television crime drama has proved itself ……続きを見る

India’s Kochi-Muziris Biennale has been described as one of the most significant newly emergent biennales, alongside Shanghai, Sharjah and Dakar. However, there have been few sustained and critical ……続きを見る

Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. ……続きを見る

Making a foundational contribution to Mesoamerican studies, this book explores Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptures, as well as indigenous and colonial Spanish texts, to offer the first integrat……続きを見る

Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. All……続きを見る

Antony Gormley occupies an unusual position as a highly populist sculptor known chiefly for his Angel of the North (1998), a national landmark in the UK who is also widely regarded as one of the mos……続きを見る

When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us? In contrast to post-Enlightenment conceptions, which tend to restrict themselves to aesthetic or discursive responses, the ancien……続きを見る

Abstract Expressionism was the defining movement in American art during the years following World War II, making New York City the center of the international art scene. But what the heck did it mea……続きを見る

Large, bold, and colorful, indigenous Australian artーsometimes known as Aboriginal artーhas made an indelible impression on the contemporary art scene. But it is controversial, dividing the artists……続きを見る

The American artist Leon Golub (1922–2004) is best known for his iconic history paintings of mercenaries, interrogations, torture scenes and riots of the 1980s and early ’90s. Published to accompany……続きを見る

First published in 1989, this is the third of three volumes exploring the changing notions of patriotism in British life from the thirteenth century to the late twentieth century and constitutes an ……続きを見る

Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national design ……続きを見る

First published in 1935, this book was intended to provide westerners with a more definite and comprehensive understanding of Chinese Art and its achievements. Newly available opportunities to study……続きを見る

From 1952 to 1981, South Africa’s apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African art teachers at Indaleni, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal. The Art of Life in South Africa is the ……続きを見る

The Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Art illuminates important artists, styles, and movements of the past 70 years. Beginning with the immediate post-World War II period, it encompasses earlier……続きを見る

This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a theological concept, and the difficulties that arise even in the interpretation ……続きを見る

This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship. Art historians have traditionally written about images of figures with impairments and……続きを見る

A major issue in the relation of art to the rest of society is the question of how art penetrates politics. From the perspective of most art scholars, this is a question of aestheticsーwhether polit……続きを見る

Tour North America’s greatest museums and galleries in the company of two incomparable guides. This lively companion highlights the essential paintings, by some of the world’s greatest painters, fro……続きを見る

Pionnier au Portugal, son pays d’origine, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (1887-1918), fut aussi bien in fluencé par l’impressionnisme que par le fauvisme, l’expressionnisme et le futurisme. C’est en côtoya……続きを見る

毕加索出生于西班牙，正如人们说的那样，他还未呀呀学语就已经开始了涂鸦。在1899年到1900年期间,毕加索绘画的唯一主题是"最终真理",即人生的虚幻无常和死亡的不可避免。在早期作品后是他的“蓝色时期”，然后是“玫……続きを見る

鲁本斯，巴洛克绘画繁荣时期最伟大的艺术巨匠，从意大利文艺复兴中汲取了所有对其有用的精华，从而建立起了自己的风格。这个来自北方的艺术家希望并且实现了将佛兰徳艺术与拉丁艺术融合起来，却不失自己热情四溢的……続きを見る

塞尚成为19世纪最著名的日常静物写生的画家，其强烈的风格无人可以匹敌。当搬到巴黎，受到雷诺阿的鼓舞之后，这位普罗旺斯艾克斯出生的画家与印象派画家们一起在1874年和1877年开了画展，尽管他遭受到评论的嘲讽和……続きを見る

伦勃朗的思想、生活和工作都是神秘的，我们只能够通过他的画作和他琐碎的或者说悲惨的不幸生活来猜测他的本性。悲剧的元素被他画在每一幅画上，不论主题；他的画作有不平等的也有崇高的，这可以被看做是这个混乱的……続きを見る

文森特·梵·高的生活和创作是如此紧密地联系在一起，以至于不了解他的生平便无法理解其作品。他作为生存环境的局外人而不被人理解成为痛苦的现代艺术殉难者的化身。一篇文章这样描述他，“一个可怕的疯狂的天才，常……続きを見る

皮埃尔-奥古斯特·雷诺阿生活和呼吸着的是一种新的艺术风格，对他来说，第一次印象派画展意义重大，他的画作得到艺术家们的肯定。1873年他搬到了蒙马特并在那里度过了一生，在那里有他需要的“外光”题材，他的模特，……続きを見る